PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources
Mise-en-page in manuscripts and printed books containing polyphonic music, 1480—1530
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choirbook (single quire(s))
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poetry collection with some notated music
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
black
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Type of Notation
German hufnagel
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chant (square)
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void mensural
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Monophonic Notation
absent
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Level of Calligraphy
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coronae
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Level of Calligraphy
fair
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black
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Pricking frequency: never
Ruling medium: freehand
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Brussels, Belgium, Bibliothèque Royal Albert 1er/Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I, MS IV.922, c. 1520, one quire (117-125) c. 1515, All folios
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